The Portland daily press., 1887-10-28
EVENING SESSION.

The evening session began with devotional
services.
Senator Frye's address, DR.. Gregg being
absent. was the only. formal speech of the
evening. The main portion of Mr. Frye's
speech was as follows:
Senator Frye's Address.
Mr. President, members of the american Associa-
ton, Ladies and Gentiemen
feel degree of modesty in this presence
which might be becoming to young girl, but
seriously dsturbs and diseommodes full grown
man like me on the platform. Why l should be a
teacher OF you men and you women, who have
been teachers, yourselves in the work of this as
ISOLATION for years,I fail to see. Why should
undertake to instruct you in your duties, when
you have been performing for years these very
duties which l have been negfecting, cannot
see. When your secretary invited me to address
you tonight ! knew comparatively little of this
association. L am ashamed to admit it, but do
confess. had an idea that it was a foreign mis-
sionary society, and had been over this country
SO much and had seen the absolute necessity Of
commencing at Jerusalem, that did not SYM
pathize largely with your Foreign Missionary As
sociation. ! requested your secretary to intro
duce me to the association by sending me few
annual reports He did So IfaYs read them.
have almost as much light as st. Paul had and al
most as sudden. (Applause.)
Why forty years you have been living and do
ing and working and suffering and growing in
power and strength and beauty and influence.
The same inspiration which brought this glorious
republic of ours into existence, find, brought
your association into life too-"a mans man foT
a. that" find that you commenced weak
thlnk that twelve TO fourteen thousand dollars a
year for money in an association of this kind is
strength.
find that you have been increasing from wear
to year. Lsitil now you are the almoners of -four
thousaui a year. find that you did commence a
foreign missionary society, but that YOU too with
me, looked around upon our republic that YOU live
ill; while and you too see millions Of men, women
and children to whom no church door ever opens
from the beginning 10 the end of the year. Ay
you saw millions, too, for whom the Bible was as
IL IL mad never been written, and you too deter
mined that you must commence at Jerusalem and
make 1t a home missionary society. find that
you looked over this republic of ours, and you
found millions OF men, women and children who
never had schoolhouse door open to them In
their lives, and you made one further step In adj
Sa so ann you snst You would not only
atty society, but that you would come to the very
root OF the thing and you would be an educational
association and open schoOlhouse doors to the
thousands of people in our republic and SO form a
new aud perfect Trinity: Education, Home Mis-
sions and Foreign Missions combined; and what
glorious work you have been doing. ! find that
one day, away up in the mountains In Kentucky
In county OF fourteen thousand inhabitants
where never had church spire pointed Godward
where never had school house door opened, you
built church and then an academy and you in
scrlbcd over the door of the church and the acad-
emy; "Whoms Soc Will let him Gomez And
that he might be taught the alphabet and fitted
for an American citizenship which had been
thrust upon him, you pointed the boy to that in
scription: whatsoever will, let him Gomez Zap
pluse.)
find that you built and incorporated a college
called "Berea" believe that you endowed 1t
and you furnished 1t with president and profess
sors, and not forgetful of your duty to almighty
COD, you put that same inscription over the door
OF that college: "Whosoever,will, let him come"
And three black boys came and YOU shew them
the inscription and pointed your door to them and
the next day one half of all the scholars of Berea
left, but the inscription still stands above that
door and that door still stands open. Thank God
for the courage that exists today III the South in
the light Of the bitter prejudices existing there.
Place that inscription above the doors of its
school houses and colleges and churches and
keep i there; let what win come. (Applause)
the South; / find that You have thirteen or four
teen normal schools; thirty or forty common
schools; find that you established the first free
school established in this republic into which a
black boy and black girl could CO. applause }
find that you have built 12o churches in the
South; that you have ministers and missionaries
there; that those church doors are open to all,
black and white; find that you have some ten or
thirteen thousand children in your Sabbath
schools, and men and women, l trust, as well--I
plause.) find that am entertaining an angel I'M
awares. (Applause.( am delighted with this
acquaintance which have formed. I wish to
have more to do with you in the
future than have in the past. (Applause.) l
WOuiu W ItiilDtf Oh lnlS ASSOcidIlOD.
Great applause.) And your treasurer may draw
on me at sight for the necessary money to be-
come one (Applause) And when the contribu-
tiOn box is passed around in front of me for your
Association solemnly pledge myself to put in
five times as much as / have ever heretofore.
lApplausel Now, Mr.. President, isn't that a
good speech. Continued applause.) II you have
got nothing else by inviting me to stand on this
platform, you have made so much sure. asked
your secretary to give me text to talk about and
he gave me an enormous one. THE Republic aud
the South :" / know something about both, and
though have been good deal in the South l
have taken some interest in the Republic. read
a while ago wonderful book, written by DR..
Strong. entitled ''Our Country" 1t carries the
mind right up into the fifth Heaven and once in a
while it chncks it right down into -. ZAP
plause.) II makes me feel delighted, and then 1t
makes inc feel melancholy aud blue as if I were
in an insane asylum. wish that / could speak
and write about the republic that book holds it
forth. Take the magnificent progress of this
country IN quarter OF a century marching stead
ny on uil It stands at the head Of the lations on
the earth; the richest nation the earth; great
est IN manufacturing, mining and influence on the